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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIQEQ ALBERT A. LOVE, OF NEW BRIGHTON, NEW YORK.

PLATE AND DISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,665, dated April 2'7, 1880.

Application filed March 10,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT A. LOVE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in the town of New Brighton, county of Richmond, and State of New York, have invented eertain new and useful Improvements in Plates, Dishes, &c., fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

In said drawings, Figure l illustrates a plate or shallow dish, the edge or rim of which is enlarged on its under side. Fig. 2 illustrates such a plate or dish with its edge or rim enlarged on its upper side, and Fig. 3 illustrates such a plate or dish with its rim or edge enlarged on both its upper and under side.

The fragile character of the material of which ceramic plates, dishes, 850., constituting table-ware are composed renders them liable to disfigurement by the chipping or abrading of their projecting edges or rims, which results from the forcible contact of one dish with another, either in packing, handling, or use. Such injury destroys their salableness it it occurs in the hands of the trade, and renders them unsightly, undesirable, and often useless if it occurs in the hands of the user.

Attempts have been made to remedy these defects by constructing the said plates, dishes, &c., with very thick bodies, so as to provide them with thick and strong rims or edges; but this method adds to the article very objectionable elements-namely, such thickness and weight as to render them cumbersome, unhandy, and expensive and when adopted in fine porcelain goods detracts from their salableness, (while increasing their cost,) for the reason that a most desirable quality of such goods is lost-namely, such a thinness of body as to produce translueence'.

The present invention, which consists in forming an enlargement or head upon the edges or rims of ceramic wares, such as dishes, plates, &c-., is alike applicable to fine porcelain goods and to the coarser grades of earthenwares, imparting to the former, without increasing the thickness of the body portion,

rims or edges having a proper degree of strength to resist ordinary blows, and, while in like manner protecting the rims or edges of the coarser goods, enabling their body portions to be made considerably lighter than is now the practice.

In carrying out this invention the plate or dish, of whatever general conformation or shape, is formed by the potter in the usual manner, and during such forming the edge or rim is enlarged on its under side or upper side, or both, so as to provide the same with the enlargement or bead a, as shown in the drawings. NVhen the ware isrlred this enlargementor head is rendered not only as hard and tenacious as the other portions of the article, but, from its increased body of material, its strength is materially increased beyond that possessed by the thinner portions thereof.

Plates, dishes, and like flat ware, whether of line or coarse grade, when thus constructed may be handled and brought into contact with each other, or with hard surfaces, without danger of their edges becoming chipped or otherwise damaged.

Articles so improved may be made with comparatively thin bodies, and yet possess the qualities of superior strength and durability, enhanced beauty of finish, and cheapness of production, for the reasons that the enlarged rim or edge not only stifl'ens the thin body of the article, but resists the destructive blows against its edge, while it imparts an ornamental finish, and enables the article to be formed from a lesser quantity of material than is now employed.

This improvement thus adapts the coarser grades of goods for the supply of a trade now and the merits it possesses, what is claimed A plate or similar article of table-ware constructed of a base from which a flange or Well my hand in the presence of two subscribing rises on all sides to form a hollow vessel, said witnesses.

flange or wall having smooth uninterrupted exterior and interior surfaces, and enlarged at its outer edge to provide it with a protect- Witnesses:

ing-rim, a, all substantially as described. H. 'l. MUNSON,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set GEO. H. GRAHAM.

ALBERT A. LOVE. 

